There has been criticism over a pound of pot. Evansville Police arrested two people at a Mary Street apartment Wednesday. But, when authorities announced the arrests, some critics questioned their tactics on social media.

EPD fired back, with a blunt message for critics of those recent marijuana arrests.

Just this past year, Evansville has seen a spike in violence, gun crimes, and murders. Police say many of those high-profile crimes link back to weed.

"We don't care what's in that baggy," EPD Sgt. Jason Cullum told 14 News. "If it's causing people to pull guns, to shoot at each other, and it's leading to people's death, what's in the bag makes no difference to us."

EPD says it's targeting some of the areas most violent criminals with its new "VIPER" Unit, and they're also looking to get a handle on violent crime by weeding out lower level offenders like marijuana dealers.

"A lot of the response was: it was just weed, and we're wasting our resources," Sgt. Cullum told us after looking through the comments on social media.

Some social media users wrote on the Department's Facebook page saying crime would go down if lawmakers legalized marijuana. One person wrote, "no one has ever robbed a bank or killed anyone from smoking marijuana."

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